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26 points north_creao | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.208s | source

Hi HN! I'm North, DevRel from the CREAO team. We are a 15-20 person startup, and we spent a couple of months building this vibe coding product. We've been exploring the possibilities of how agents should assist people's work for productivity in various scenarios.

Three months ago, we noticed that all small teams and companies are struggling with subscribing to multiple SaaS tools that never fit their exact needs. Pretty much all founders and SMB professionals need customized productivity tools that fit their daily work routines, but they don't have developers to build these lightweight tools for them. So we thought we needed to build a vibe coding product that allows them to ship their own tools in minutes and get rid of these SaaS subscriptions.

For our product features, we built it differently from all the other vibe coding products. We want our users to build something actually useful instead of just a product prototype. But the current well-known code agents are performing poorly at building complex data schemas and integrating APIs. So we fine-tuned a small model for the following features:

1.Automatically builds complex relational data schemas

2.Automated MCP/API connections with existing systems

With these core capabilities, our code agent can then build internal tools that connect with existing systems with state persistence. For example, I built a dashboard to track my X engagement and export results to a CSV file.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBBOdrtonlj_56jgQuAoPpGnABB...

This productivity boost is specifically designed for small team founders—you can build your own CRM workflows, data dashboards, revenue tracking, etc. Each of these could cost you $20-50/month in SaaS subscriptions.

We are still in the early stage and improving our user experience. Our team is delivering new features pretty much every week, and we would love to hear from HN to give us some suggestions on how we can do better. You can always reach me at north@creao.ai. I love to shape the product together with community users. I hope you can find our work very helpful for your productivity.

Thanks!

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nikolayasdf123 ◴[] No.44993430[source]
> We are a 15-20 person startup,

wow, that's a lot of people for such a product. what are you all doing there? seems seriously over-hired.

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1. north_creao ◴[] No.44993870[source]
Fair question, I understand that 15-20 person sounds like a lot for a startup. However our product is not just a UI tool wrapped with Claude code, the reality is that making AI generate actually working full-stack apps with MCP/API integration in one shot required way more infrastructure than people thought.

If you test out lovable, you will notice that they require more than one round of conversations to build full-stack apps like asking you to config supabase manually. And it 's very hard to connect with existing systems either through MCP or customize API. If you can take a look at the use case video link I put in post, you will get a better understanding of what I mean by the capability differentiation.